Second Army Corps

On September 17, 1862, Howard's Brigade of Sedgwick's Division, Second Army Corps, commanded by Brig. Gen. O.O. Howard and including the 69th, 71st, 72d, and 106th Pennsylvania Infantry, followed Gorman and Dana in their attack, passed through the East Woods, crossed the Cornfield and the Hagerstown Pike, and reached the edge of the West Woods, where its advance was checked about 90 yards east of this point. After its left flank was attacked and turned by McLaws' and Walker's Divisions, the brigade was forced to retire to the fields north of D.R. Miller's, where it was reformed and placed in position in support of part of the artillery of the First and Twelfth Corps and of Sedgwick's Division of the Second Corps.

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